libidinousness
Intense carnal appetite
Libidinousness is the quality of being driven by sexual desire or lust.
The word carries a slightly clinical or literary tone, more often found in philosophical or psychological discussions than casual speech: The novel explores the libidinousness lurking beneath Victorian propriety.
It suggests not just desire but an excessive or unrestrained preoccupation with it.
Pursuit of bodily pleasures
- lecheryExcessive sexual indulgence
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- lasciviousnessOvert sexual impropriety
- prurienceLustful, unhealthy curiosity
salacity · concupiscence · horniness · randiness · debauchery · licentiousness · wantonness · lustfulness
Powerful urge to have
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- appetiteDesire for food
- urgeStrong inner drive
hunger · thirst · drive · compulsion · covetousness · concupiscence · want · need
Sexual desire's aesthetic quality
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
- arousalStirring to heightened state
- voluptuousnessSensual abundance and curves
- carnalityPursuit of bodily pleasures
pleasure · intimacy · hedonism · indulgence · titillation · stimulation · aphrodisiac · seductiveness
carnality
Pursuit of bodily pleasures
- lecheryExcessive sexual indulgence
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- lasciviousnessOvert sexual impropriety
prurience · salacity · concupiscence · horniness · randiness · debauchery · licentiousness · wantonness · lustfulness · lecherousness
craving
Powerful urge to have
urge · hunger · thirst · drive · compulsion · covetousness · concupiscence · want · need · itch
eroticism
Sexual desire's aesthetic quality
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
- arousalStirring to heightened state
- voluptuousnessSensual abundance and curves
carnality · pleasure · intimacy · hedonism · indulgence · titillation · stimulation · aphrodisiac · seductiveness · sultriness
- lustlust, lustfulness, carnality, concupiscence, lechery
libidinousnessasexuality
Lack of sexual attraction
frigidity · sexlessness · coldness · indifference · apathy
libidinousnesschastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
celibacy · abstinence · purity · continence · virtue